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Post by bernythedolt on Oct 23, 2021 23:49:34 GMT
My Ivana , 19 has fallen in love with me over the internet,but has fallen ill while on holiday in Lagos I need to western union £6000 there fo her medical care. Cannot believe my luck, me being 66, bald with no teeth.When she is well and i have payed the large legal fees to release the funds hidden for her by her father General Putin, yes related, she will travel here and we will be together. Just cannot believe my luck. I recall a story from long ago where a man was headed to one of the South East Asian countries looking for love. When he asked if being fat or bald or old would prevent him from finding somebody, he was told being fat and bald and old woundn't spoil his chances. Well, don't leave us in suspense.... how did you get on? 😁 I'm reminded of www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_Q5dSbBczE
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Post by agent69 on Oct 24, 2021 9:15:33 GMT
I recall a story from long ago where a man was headed to one of the South East Asian countries looking for love. When he asked if being fat or bald or old would prevent him from finding somebody, he was told being fat and bald and old woundn't spoil his chances. Well, don't leave us in suspense.... how did you get on? 😁 I'm reminded of www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_Q5dSbBczE Ask me nicely and I'll show you the photographs
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Post by overthehill on Oct 24, 2021 12:24:26 GMT
Sheep, Danish women or scam emails? At least two of them have hairy armpits so I would just delete them automatically, no risk involved.
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Post by overthehill on Oct 25, 2021 9:53:09 GMT
Phone networks ordered to block foreign scam calls. There are plenty of things which can be done when they get around to it!
People still fall for telephone scams because they are too polite and don't want to be rude by hanging up because they think it is someone just trying to do their job, those halycon days of communication with strangers are behind us unless the authorities get serious. At the moment it is like the two coppers leaving the Grapes in Early Doors, "Crime won't crack itself" !
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Post by pikestaff on Oct 25, 2021 13:09:25 GMT
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Post by keitha on Oct 25, 2021 13:34:32 GMT
Please dont tell me your surname is Smith
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Post by adrianc on Oct 25, 2021 14:10:10 GMT
Phone networks ordered to block foreign scam calls. How would they know which those are?
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Post by keitha on Oct 25, 2021 14:17:32 GMT
presumably they can "see" the real phone number rather than the one it pretends to be
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Post by adrianc on Oct 25, 2021 15:04:30 GMT
presumably they can "see" the real phone number rather than the one it pretends to be With VoIP, there isn't a "real" phone number. The number allocated by the provider is the only number there is, because that's the start and end point for the phone network. The other side of that, it's just... internet traffic.
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Post by keitha on Oct 25, 2021 16:48:46 GMT
Another example of the law taking so long to enact that the technology has overtaken it
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Post by michaelc on Oct 25, 2021 17:11:10 GMT
presumably they can "see" the real phone number rather than the one it pretends to be With VoIP, there isn't a "real" phone number. The number allocated by the provider is the only number there is, because that's the start and end point for the phone network. The other side of that, it's just... internet traffic. Yes but someone has paid for that voip number so there must be a genuine ISP/telephone company to contact ?
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Post by adrianc on Oct 25, 2021 17:26:06 GMT
With VoIP, there isn't a "real" phone number. The number allocated by the provider is the only number there is, because that's the start and end point for the phone network. The other side of that, it's just... internet traffic. Yes but someone has paid for that voip number so there must be a genuine ISP/telephone company to contact ? Sure, a VoIP number provider. How does that tell you it's a scam call?
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Post by michaelc on Oct 25, 2021 17:30:02 GMT
Yes but someone has paid for that voip number so there must be a genuine ISP/telephone company to contact ? Sure, a VoIP number provider. How does that tell you it's a scam call? I was thinking of the scam website I mentioned which provides a number "in Sweden"....
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Post by bernythedolt on Oct 25, 2021 18:47:04 GMT
Yes but someone has paid for that voip number so there must be a genuine ISP/telephone company to contact ? Sure, a VoIP number provider. How does that tell you it's a scam call? I think the point is they will block most calls emanating from abroad which present themselves as having a UK source number. That's what the Telegraph says today anyway:- "Many of the scam calls are made by foreign gangs using technology to make it appear as if the call is coming from within the UK. Others trick their victims out of thousands of pounds by ‘spoofing’ genuine numbers belonging to British banks.
But after talks with Ofcom, the telecoms regulator, major networks have agreed to block nearly every call coming from abroad if it shows up with a UK Caller ID.
The only calls allowed through will be those made from roaming mobiles or from call centres proven to be legitimate. "
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Post by adrianc on Oct 25, 2021 18:54:45 GMT
Sure, a VoIP number provider. How does that tell you it's a scam call? I think the point is they will block most calls emanating from abroad which present themselves as having a UK source number. That's what the Telegraph says today anyway:- "Many of the scam calls are made by foreign gangs using technology to make it appear as if the call is coming from within the UK. Others trick their victims out of thousands of pounds by ‘spoofing’ genuine numbers belonging to British banks.
But after talks with Ofcom, the telecoms regulator, major networks have agreed to block nearly every call coming from abroad if it shows up with a UK Caller ID.
The only calls allowed through will be those made from roaming mobiles or from call centres proven to be legitimate. "Which won't necessarily do anything at all... If the scammers use a UK VoIP provider, then the call will have a UK caller ID and will enter the phone networks in the UK, but the actual scammers are nowhere near the UK. The actual call entered the UK as internet data. There is no way that the networks can possibly know where that internet data originated. And, no, they can't force VoIP operators to bar traffic originating from outside the UK - that's how all the offshored call centres work...
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